A lady who says she used to be bullied and confused via Prince Harry has known as him the “primary chance” to the charity they ran in combination and accused him of briefing in opposition to it in an try to power it to fail.
In a wide-ranging interview with Sky Information’ Trevor Phillips, chair of Sentebale Dr Sophie Chandauka claimed:
• Sentebale misplaced sponsors and donors when the Sussexes left the United Kingdom – however she wasn’t allowed to talk about the issue
• Harry attempted to “eject” her from the organisation
• She used to be requested for a observation in make stronger of Meghan after a polo fundraiser – which she refused to provide
• The prince would appoint board individuals with out consulting her
Sentebale used to be arrange via the prince in 2006 in reminiscence of his mom, Princess Diana, to lend a hand younger other folks with HIV in Lesotho and Botswana.
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20:17 Complete interview with Sophie Chandauka
Dr Chandauka has already accused the prince of “harassment and bullying at scale” via “unleashing” the Sussex PR machineover problems on the charity – an allegation a supply denied as “utterly baseless”
In a complete interview for Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, she used to be requested if the Duke of Sussex is the “primary chance” to the charity, and answered “sure”.
Dr Chandauka stated when she requested why the lack of sponsors wasn’t mentioned within the charity, she used to be instructed: “It is an uncomfortable dialog to have with Prince Harry within the room.”
“What you came upon used to be necessarily, donors have been strolling on account of the prince’s recognition?” requested Trevor Phillips.
“Sure,” Dr Chandauka answered.
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1:42 Prince Harry ‘unleashed Sussex gadget’
She additionally accused the prince of seeking to “eject” her from the organisation.
“There have been board conferences the place individuals of the manager crew and exterior strategic advisors have been sending me messages announcing, ‘Must I interrupt?’, ‘Must I forestall this?’ ‘Oh my gosh, that is so dangerous’,” she stated.
“In truth, our strategic adviser for fundraising then despatched me a message announcing she would not need to ever attend to any extent further board conferences or deliver her colleagues on account of the remedy.”
When she did not go away, Dr Chandauka prompt Prince Harry attempted to power the failure of the charity he arrange in his mom’s reminiscence.
“Prince Harry began to transient, and his crew, sponsors that I have been chatting with, in opposition to me and the charity, as a result of that could be a positive manner of having me out if it is observed as despite the fact that I am not being a success in my fundraising efforts,” she stated.
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13:52 ‘This all got here as a surprise to me’
When requested a couple of Sky Information interview with former trustee Dr Kelello Lerotholi who stated he used to be “stunned” via her accusations in regards to the prince, Dr Chandauka stated she wasn’t “stunned that he did not know a lot of what used to be happening within the organisation”.
“He had the worst attendance report and even if he used to be within the conferences, he did not in truth give a contribution that a lot,” she stated.
Dr Chandauka gave an instance of the prince’s behaviour in board conferences.
“Prince Harry makes a decision, in this explicit instance, that he needs to nominate a person to the board, with rapid impact, with no need talked to me,” she stated.
“His proxy at the board says, ‘Sure, I 2d that movement’. The 3rd proxy at the board says, ‘Welcome to the board, Brian’.
“And everyone’s surprised and quiet, however that is what occurs when the prince is within the room and no person has the braveness to talk.”
Polo tournament
Dr Chandauka additionally mentioned Prince Harry’s filming of a Netflix display, which she stated resulted within the charity dropping the venue for an tournament they have been maintaining.
She stated the duke phoned her crew, announcing he’d love to deliver a Netflix team to the polo tournament.
She stated the venue house owners have been at first “satisfied for us to make use of their polo grounds at a subject matter cut price”.
However on account of the request, the associated fee larger because it had grow to be a business undertaking.
The charity used to be compelled to tug out of the venue because it could not come up with the money for the cost, consistent with Dr Chandauka, however then used to be “fortunate sufficient” to search out every other thru Prince Harry’s connections.
At the day, on the other hand, she claimed there have been extra issues.
Symbol: The Duchess of Sussex introduced a trophy to Prince Harry after his crew received a polo tournament in Wellington, Florida, in April 2024. Pic: PA
“The duchess made up our minds to wait, however she instructed us she wasn’t attending, and she or he introduced a pal, an overly well-known pal,” Dr Chandauka stated.
“The choreography went badly on level as a result of we had too many of us on level.
“The world press captured this, and there used to be numerous communicate in regards to the duchess and the choreography on level and whether or not she must were there and her remedy of me.”
She claimed the media consideration round Meghan’s remedy of her brought on Prince Harry to invite Dr Chandauka to factor a observation in make stronger of the duchess.
“I stated I would not. No longer as a result of I did not care in regards to the duchess, however as a result of I knew what would occur if I did so, primary. And quantity two, as a result of we can’t be an extension of the Sussexes,” she stated.
Sky Information contacted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in regards to the contents of Sophie Chandauka’s interview with Trevor Phillips, and so they declined to supply any formal reaction.
However a supply on the subject of the previous trustees of the Sentebale charity has described as categorically false Dr Chandauka’s claims that Dr Kelello didn’t attend conferences and didn’t give a contribution a lot when he used to be in conferences and that the Duke of Sussex leaving the United Kingdom impacted the charity, brought about it to lose sponsors, or that the duke posed the most important chance to the charity.
The supply additionally described as “utterly baseless” Dr Chandauka’s claims that she used to be bullied and confused, briefed in opposition to via Prince Harry, or that the Sussex gadget used to be unleashed on her and that the folk at the board of Sentebale have been scared to talk up when the duke used to be within the room.
The declare that the clicking used to be knowledgeable in regards to the royal consumers departure as trustees earlier than the charity, has been described via the supply as “categorically unfaithful”.
The supply described Dr Chandauka’s account of the polo fit as “extremely deceptive”. Sky Information additionally contacted Netflix, who declined to remark.
In accordance with Dr Chandauka’s declare that the Duke of Sussex used to be ‘forcing the failure’ of the charity ‘as a final hotel’, the supply pointed to the general public observation of Prince Harry and his co-founder of the Sentebale charity, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, which learn:
“It’s devastating that the connection between the charity’s trustees and the chair of the board broke down past restore, developing an untenable state of affairs.
“Those trustees acted in the most efficient pastime of the charity in asking the chair to step down, whilst maintaining the wellbeing of team of workers in thoughts. In flip, she sued the charity to stay on this voluntary place, additional underscoring the damaged courting.”
